Ask-A: Question and Answer Sources
Sometimes the best way to get an answer is to ask someone. See also Fact Sources.
This page:
Experts |
Associations |
Librarians |
Others on the Internet |
Archives of Questions and Answers
Ask Someone in the Business: Directories of Experts:
- All Experts - Experts in various categories offer to answer your questions
- Ask A+ Locator
- Ask an Expert Page - Experts in all subjects answer your questions
- Keen - Have an expert call you
- Pitsco's Ask an Expert - Links to expert sites
Ask a Group: Directories of Associations:
- Gateway to Associations (American Society of Association Executives)
- Associations on the Net (Internet Public Library)
- Scholarly Societies Project (University of Waterloo)
- Virtual Community of Associations
- Windows to Culture - International, national, and nonprofit cultural organizations (UNESCO)
- Atlas Conferences - Search for conferences by subject, date, or country
- Conference Alerts - Academic conferences worldwide
- MInd: The Meeting Index
Conferences:
Ask a Librarian:
Ask Others on the Internet:
Some of these sites have a searchable archive of past questions.
- Ask Metafilter
- Google Answers - Users answer each other's questions — for a price agreed upon by questioner and answerer. However, you can browse the archive of answers for free.
- I Love Everything
- Live QnA
- Wondir - Users answer questions, often soon after they are posted
- Yahoo Answers - Users answer each other's questions; browsable archive of answers
- See also:
- E-mail Lists and Usenet Newsgroups
- Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) pages
- Online Computer Help
- Science Explanations
Archives of Questions and Answers:
If someone's asked your question before, you may find the answer at one of these sites.
- Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) pages
- Straight Dope - A syndicated newspaper columnist writing under the name of Cecil Adams answers questions from readers. Valuable archive of past questions.
- QueryCAT - Search FAQ pages all over the Web
- See also Fugitive Fact Files, where librarians save answers to reference questions